In August 2009, Max Boykoff joined our Center as a faculty member.Prior to this Max was a Research Fellow in the Environmental Change Institute (ECI), as well as a Department Lecturer in the School of Geography and the Environment, at the University of Oxford. His interests include the cultural politics of climate change and transformations of carbon-based economies and societies.

New Media Coverage on Climate Change Project

This figure tracks newspaper coverage of climate change or global warming in 50 newspapers across 20 countries and 6 continents. Max Boykoff and Maria Mansfield first assembled this figure while conducting research at the University of Oxford, Environmental Change Institute. They continue to update this figure on a monthly basis as a resource for journalists, researchers, and others who may be interested in tracking these trends. The chart contains data up to approximately six weeks from the present time, due to the timings of when some newspapers’ articles are made available through search engines. Read more on this project.

Benjamin Hale now co-editor of Ethics, Place & Environment

Benjamin Hale recently accepted co-editorship of the journal Ethics, Place & Environment where he will serve with Andrew Light (George Mason University and Center for American Progress), one of the journal's founders. They plan to strengthen the journal's focus on environmental policy, ethics, and philosophy, and will encourage environmental philosophers to engage in applied research on environmental problems. Upcoming articles include “Greenhouse Development Rights: A Proposal for a Fair Global Climate Treaty” and “A Shallow Route to Environmentally Friendly Happiness.” They invite members of the decision-making community with an interest in issues at the cross-section of policy and ethics to submit an article.